Lexical melodies #
This file defines the melody of a morpheme, its underlying autosegmental contribution as a form built from lists.
A melody consists of the autosegments and slots that one morpheme sponsors, with its lexical
pre-linking in melody-local coordinates. Pre-linking is a matter of analysis. A melody with
no lines is the universally unlinked underlying form of harmonic serialism, and a partially
linked one is a stratal form such as /M^H/. The valued, unvalued, and floating
autosegments of Rolle's typology of grammatical tone are the linked slots, the unlinked
slots, and the floating autosegments of a candidate. A word is the product of the melodies
of its morphemes in the concatenation monoid, as in the Generalized Nonlinear Affixation
program.
Main definitions #
Form.melody: the form of one morpheme's autosegments, slots, and pre-links, the pre-links given as pairs of natural numbers.
Implementation notes #
Consistency of Exponence, that GEN never alters morphemic affiliation, holds by the typing of
Candidate, whose tiers are those of its form.
References #
melody m tones tbus links is the form of the morpheme m, with the autosegments
tones over the slots tbus and the pre-links links in melody-local coordinates,
given as pairs of positions.
Equations
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